“With respect to trigger warnings, first and foremost I am an absolute defender of academic freedom,” Garrett said, according to Politico New York.

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“And there are some professors, that before they teach a particular topic or book, want to talk to the students about that and put it in some context. And if they wish to do that, they have that right,” she said. “If they wish not to do that, they also, in my view, have that right. So I would never require any kind of particular warning be given.”

Additionally, Garrett said she does not believe there should be any limits on freedom of speech at universities.

“A university is about the fullest and freest expression of ideas and arguments. There isn’t any idea that ought not to be tested and questioned,” Garrett said, according to The New York Post. “Because that’s how we get closer to the truth. We’re about reason, rationality, debate. So if you disagree with someone, the answer isn’t to shut them down.”

The Huffington Post also ran a story on Garrett, which describes how she likes to tell students to sleep more and spend more time on campus “unplugged” from their cellphones.

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President Elizabeth Garrett called a bill proposed in Congress in September that would require schools to use a part of their endowments for financial aid “misconceived,” Bloomberg Businessweek reported. The bill, which is set to be filed this month, would require institutions of higher education with endowments larger than $1 billion to distribute some of that money in the form of need-based scholarships in order to maintain their tax-free status, according to the Bloomberg article.

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After several months ripe with personnel fluctuations, the University has announced that it will restructure the presidential leadership team to include an executive vice president and chief financial officer, pending board of trustee approval of the position, according to a University press release. Garrett has appointed Joanne DeStefano, the current vice president for finance and chief financial officer, to fill the new position.